Word: apartness
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...freedoms, the years when young people have to figure out for the first time who they are. The task is even more complex for the growing number of devout young Christians on secular college campuses who feel called to approach this time in a way that sets them apart. They draw inspiration from Paul's letter to the Romans:"Do not be conformed to this world." But the Bible gives few details on how to navigate the collegiate world in 2005, leaving Christians to grapple with tough questions as they try to integrate their beliefs--and themselves--into college life...
...director has said he'll be tied up in Los Angeles completing his latest thriller, War of the Worlds. Also absent from the festivities will be the three mechanical sharks used in the picture, all of which were nicknamed Bruce--after Spielberg's attorney--and have long since fallen apart. Unlike the film's fictionalized Amity Island, Martha's Vineyard has never been plagued by unprovoked shark attacks, although a great white was spotted off the coast of a nearby island last year. "We're celebrating the arrival of Hollywood, not any predators," said a rep from the local Chamber...
Wilson's plays already stand apart from virtually anything else in contemporary theater. The overarching subject of his epic is the legacy of slavery, yet the plays teem with vibrant, idiosyncratic, fully imagined characters who are never reduced to political placards. The plays are realistic, even old-fashioned, in style but sprinkled with mysticism and magic: ghosts, visions, seers and a matriarchal figure named Aunt Ester, who recurs throughout the series and lives to the age of 366. With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first...
...ironic that so many Americans tore themselves apart over the death of Schiavo but had no qualms about sending thousands of able-bodied young men and women off to Iraq to kill and be killed in a needless war. If those people had spent as much energy trying to keep U.S. service members from killing and getting killed, the war might never have happened. Frank Strylecki Ottawa, Canada...
...have the same excitement for investors," he says. Combining the companies at that point might make sense in order to gain a critical mass that would enable him to get better terms from equipment suppliers and others. ? The Wind deal has yet to be finalized, and could still fall apart. Responding to critics of the deal, Sawiris points to his record of success in unlikely places: "When I went into Algeria and Pakistan, people thought I was crazy. They still think I'm crazy because I'm in Iraq." ? Sawiris has a big appetite for fun as well...